UND 2009-2010 Season Thread - The Lawnmower and Cookie tossing edition!

[The Rube]

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Watched the whole game, I thought both team played very well! It was what we all expect out of these teams!! Kangus stole the show and Eidsness didn't play well that was the difference in the game. Had the Sioux scored on the shot that hit both posts and went across the goal line it would have been 1-1 and a totally different game, but that didn't happen and the gopher went down and got that fluke goal over the head of Eidsness and the flood gates opened!!! I thought it was a very good game!!

Surprisingly, I agree with this post.

We'll meet again. I just hope that tonight's result is a foreshadowing of that matchup.

[TCHB]

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I'm not worried, crazy stuff always happens in rivalry games. I wouldn't have been shocked at any pair of results this weekend.

You will never ever ever ever ever convince me that Brad Eidsness is a good goalie, however.

[jdr1]

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Watched the whole game, I thought both team played very well! It was what we all expect out of these teams!! Kangus stole the show and Eidsness didn't play well that was the difference in the game. Had the Sioux scored on the shot that hit both posts and went across the goal line it would have been 1-1 and a totally different game, but that didn't happen and the gopher went down and got that fluke goal over the head of Eidsness and the flood gates opened!!! I thought it was a very good game!!

[Sloe Gin]

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Please. I think we go through this every year with you at this time.

me? Are you sure?

[brianvf]

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I see a bounce-back next weekend!

We can hope so.
UND needs to keep their stellar OOC record up by doing well against Cornell.

[Siouxfaninseattle]

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I don't know man. I'm just really skeptical right now...I mean...I don't know...

Stop it! It was a loss to a big rival, but it was the first loss of the year by more than one goal, and that was because of a hot goalie and no bounces going our way. I see a bounce-back next weekend!

[brianvf]

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Please. I think we go through this every year with you at this time.

[Sloe Gin]

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Geez, one bad loss and this guy already jumped ship.
Fine, we don't want you back once the postseason begins.

I don't know man. I'm just really skeptical right now...I mean...I don't know...

[Dirty]

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Geez, one bad loss and this guy already jumped ship.
Fine, we don't want you back once the postseason begins.

He already said he isn't coming to the F5. That means I can put my feet up on his seat! I'm all for it. MEg, Biddy, Boosh and I will have lots of fun taunting him.

[brianvf]

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I liked the team's effort in the game, they just weren't rewarded, especially in the 2nd period. If they work hard, those bounces will start going their way and in the net. Now off to NY, where we need to at least split the series.

No doubt. I think they played well for the most part.
They controlled almost the entire 2nd period, and then just fell completely apart after the fluke goal. Then they played well again in the 3rd.
Not a bad effort from the Sioux, just not their night at all.

[Mike Rane]

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I liked the team's effort in the game, they just weren't rewarded, especially in the 2nd period. If they work hard, those bounces will start going their way and in the net. Now off to NY, where we need to at least split the series.

[brianvf]

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boys, we might need to think about a postseason without our beloved team

Geez, one bad loss and this guy already jumped ship.
Fine, we don't want you back once the postseason begins.

[Sloe Gin]

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boys, we might need to think about a postseason without our beloved team

[ecbrevik]

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I'm tired of watching 3rd period leads disappear.

[Siouxfaninseattle]

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Sigh... The latest in the fighting Sioux nickname saga from today's GF Herald:




Supporters of UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname who lost their lawsuit against the state last year filed an appeal with the state Supreme Court Friday.

It could extend the life of the nickname because it could block the State Board of Higher Education from retiring the nickname until the court decides on the appeal. But Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said Friday the appeal doesn’t prevent the board from changing the nickname if board members choose to do so.

The board will discuss what it can do about that at its monthly meeting Thursday at UND.

Grand Forks attorney Pat Morley, who filed the appeal on behalf of the supporters, said it typically takes as long as nine months for the Supreme Court to decide, but he understands the state will seek an expedited hearing and he’ll agree to it. However, Stenehjem said Friday he expected it would Morley asking for the expedited scheduling of the case.

It could all be over in 45 days, Morley said.

The nickname supporters, all members of the Spirit Lake Dakotah Nation, filed the lawsuit when it became apparent that the state board was getting ready to retire the nickname at its Nov. 19 meeting in Minot.

A settlement between the state and the NCAA, which considers American Indian nicknames offensive, gives UND until Nov. 30 to win the approval of both the state’s Sioux tribes to keep the nickname. The supporters had already campaigned successfully to win their tribe’s approval in April, but fellow supporters at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have strug-gled.

Last May, the state board decided the Nov. 30 deadline was too late because UND wants to join the Summit League athletic conference and the league has said it won’t consider an application until the nickname issue is resolved.

When Standing Rock tribal leaders showed no signs they would move toward nickname approval anytime soon, the board began discussing retiring the nickname early.

Nickname supporters argue that the state is obligated to stick to the original 2010 deadline because it has an obligation to them as Sioux people who would lose out if the nickname is changed.

But authority to change UND’s athletic nickname is “part of the core responsibility of the Board of Higher Education, and not the courts or anybody else,” Stenehjem said.